Law and Government
- Law, which may informally be called a "rule"
- Government
- Rule of law, government that consists of rule not by one person but by laws, as in a democratic republic; no one person can rule and even top government officials are under and ruled by the law. In addition to this, in such a government, laws cannot be enacted which would undermine the rule of law via the setup of separate frameworks of rules for separate subsets of the population.
- Ruler, a monarch, the person who rules a country
- Procedural law, a ruleset governing the application of laws to cases
- Court order, a decision by a court
- Military rule, governance by a military body
- Monastic rule, a collection of precepts that guides the life of monks or nuns in a religious order
- In rulemaking by the federal government of the United States, a regulation mandated by congress, but written or expanded upon by the executive branch
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